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Reconsidering the Stop Online Piracy Act

Eric K. Clemons | Posted 04.22.2012

Read More: Stop Online Piracy Act, Digital Media, Internet Piracy, Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Online Piracy, Dmca, Sopa, Technology News
Eric K. Clemons

Eventually, Congress will have to consider SOPA. Here we suggest several questions that Congress will need to address and very short suggestions of what we expect they will conclude.

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Saki Knafo

How Does Twitter Handle Piracy? An Inside Look

HuffingtonPost.com | Saki Knafo | Posted 02.03.2012

Read More: Magnolia Pictures, Video, Twitter, Piracy, Acta, Web Sheriff, Dallas Mavericks, Pipa, Mark Cuban, Youtube, Takedown Notices, Prodigy, File-Sharing, Dmca, Sopa, Technology News

Last week, in the wake of protests over SOPA and PIPA, the controversial Internet anti-piracy legislation in Congress, Twitter released a database tha...

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Piracy Profiteers: Time to Walk the Plank

Kathy Wolfe | Posted 03.18.2012

Read More: Copyright Infringement, Stop Online Piracy Act, Internet Piracy, Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Dmca, SOPA Bill, Sopa, Technology News
Kathy Wolfe

Despite our best efforts, it's hard to compete with free. That is why I feel passionately about the need for legislation to protect this vital marketplace for companies like mine and for filmmakers who are the most vulnerable to bad actors in the space.

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Sure SOPA Will Add Jobs... for Trial Lawyers, Government Bureaucrats, Pornographers

Edward J. Black | Posted 01.16.2012

Read More: Copyright Infringement, Internet, Copyright, Ip, Internet Freedom, Internet Censorship, Dmca, Pipa, Protect IP, Sopa, S. 968, H.R. 3261, Technology News
Edward J. Black

Move over Obama. A bipartisan group of lawmakers has come up with their own jobs plan by way of oppressive Internet regulations that would create thousands of new, high paying jobs for attorneys as well as government workers and Internet censors.

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MediaNews Group Leaves Righthaven

Posted 11.09.2011

Read More: Copyright Infringement, 140 Characters, Digital Media, Video, Dean Singleton, Righthaven, John Paton, 140 Conf, U.S. Copyright Office, MediaNews Group, Las Vegas, Dmca, Denver News

The new chief executive of MediaNews Group, the second-largest newspaper chain in the nation, has denounced its partnership with copyright infringemen...

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Atlas Sound Wrests Control of the Bedroom Back From Sony Music

Jason Sigal | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Copyright Infringement, Copyright, Sony Music, Free Music Archive, Deerhunter, Dmca, Atlas Sound, Bedroom Databanks, Halcyon Digest, Video, Technology News
Jason Sigal

Atlas Sound (the solo project of Deerhunter's Bradford Cox) just released four free volumes of Bedroom Databanks. In response, Sony Music sent a copyright takedown notice.

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Copyright Office Rules in Favor of Fair Use and Consumer Freedom

Edward Lee | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iphone, Register of Copyrights, Drm, Apple, Copyright, iPhone Apps, Dmca, Ipad, Technology News
Edward Lee

The law marks a decisive victory for consumers and a firm rejection of attempts to use the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to achieve market control that copyright law was never meant to protect.

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Gov Says OK to Jailbreaking iPhones

Shelly Palmer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Twitter, Att, AT&T, Facebook, Iphone, App, Bump App, Danger, Citigroup, Dmca, Iphone Bump Technology, Jailbreak Iphone, Media News
Shelly Palmer

The Library of Congress has made changes to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act that make it legal to jailbreak your iPhone, run any lawful app and adapt your iPhone to run on any compatible wireless network.

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Video Debunking Climate Change Denier Removed by YouTube

Kevin Grandia | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Anthony Watts, Youtube Copyright, Climate Change, Global Warming, Dmca, Peter Sinclair, Youtube Dmca, Green News
Kevin Grandia

So what do you do when someone posts a YouTube video saying you're a crock? One way is to complain and get it wiped clean off the 'inter-tubes.'

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Eric Cantor's Copyright Smackdown

Jonathan Melber | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Copyright Infringement, Gop, Art, Copyright, Aerosmith, Digital Millenium Copyright Act, Youtube, Music, Shepard Fairey, Eric Cantor, House Republicans, Obama Hope Poster, Fair Use, Dmca, Media News
Jonathan Melber

Eric Cantor is getting a lesson on what "fair use" isn't: his chest-beating, stimulus-opposing, victory-proclaiming video set to the tune of Aerosmith's "Back in the Saddle."

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